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Malware in the recycle bin (Normalized Process Events)
Description
'Identifies malware that has been hidden in the recycle bin.
To use this analytics rule, make sure you have deployed the [ASIM normalization parsers](https://aka.ms/ASimProcessEvent)'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.2.5
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 1d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let procList = dynamic(["cmd.exe","ftp.exe","schtasks.exe","powershell.exe","rundll32.exe","regsvr32.exe","msiexec.exe"]);
imProcessCreate
| where CommandLine has "recycler"
| where Process has_any (procList)
| extend FileName = tostring(split(Process, '\\')[-1])
| where FileName in~ (procList)
| project TimeGenerated, Dvc, User, Process, FileName, CommandLine, ActingProcessName, EventVendor, EventProduct
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(User, @'\')[1]), AccountNTDomain = tostring(split(User, @'\')[0])
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Dvc, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Dvc, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Dvc, DomainIndex + 1), Dvc)
| project-away DomainIndex
Declared entities
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
61988db3-0565-49b5-b8e3-747195baac6e
Additional source files 1
Detections/ASimProcess/imProcess_malware_in_recyclebin.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC